The Cubs are on their last breath as they are down 0-2 in the best of five sereis to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Errors and not coming up with a big hit really hurt the Cubs on Tuesday night. I won’t get into the specificics of it because I’m still pretty pissed off about the game.

Our friends over at Chicago Cubs Blog . Net have their write up on the game and I suggest you go over there and take a look. Pretty good write up for such a crappy game..

Post info: By Cliff on October 3rd, 2008
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The Cubs and Dodgers kicked off the NLDS on Wednesday night and the Dodgers came away with a 7-2 victory over the Cubs. Now the Dodgers have home field advantage on their side as they need two more wins to win the series and they will play two out of three games at home.

Ryan Dempster took the loss for the Cubs as he was terrible on the mound in his 4 2/3 innings. Dempster was not his usual self as he walked seven batters including there in the fifth inning before he gave up a grand slam to James Loney. The Dodgers also hit solo home runs off of Jason Marquis and Sean Marshall in the game while tacking on another run off of Jeff Samardzija.

The Cubs had nine hits in the game, they just didn’t get the big hits that the Dodgers did. Alfonso Soriano, Derrek Lee, and Aramis Ramirez only combined for two hits in the game. Mark DeRosa had both rbi’s for the Cubs when he hit a two-run home run in the second inning. The Cubs need more production and three or more hits in an inning to score some runs if they want to win game two.

Carlos Zambrano will take the mound on game two. Hopefully he comes out and gets ahead of hitters right away and the Cubs even up the series at one game each.

Cubs Baseball Blog

Post info: By Cliff on October 2nd, 2008
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